<![CDATA[New SBA Head Could Spell More Trouble for Middle-Class Firms]]>

1.0 link 109975 <![CDATA[New SBA Head Could Spell More Trouble for Middle-Class Firms]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lloyd-chapman/new-sba-head-could-spell_b_109975.html Last week, President Bush announced that Santanu "Sandy" Baruah, head of the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration, would be the third Bush appointee to head the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Like his successor Steven Preston, Baruah has no experience or background working with small businesses and hails from a corporate background. Small business advocates are concerned that Baruah will continue the Bush anti-small business policies that have been the status quo with the Bush Administration's previously appointed administrators.

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